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Business does whatever it can get away with, and the definition of get away with includes breaking the law if it is felt the chance of apprehension is slim. If there was no regulation of business most rivers would be devoid of life coz its cheaper to pollute than treat etc etc Regulators...

Wall St already knows and the market continued its sell off, only thing is will it be used as propaganda so that stocks can be gunned for the CNBC crowd.

Looks like the Fed shareholders have used the crisis as a way to increase their illigitimate power. Off the top of my head the perception amongst market pros of reduced profits for Wall St - although in reality they will negotiate any legislation down to toothless status. THIS, The Fed as...

Nah, they were designed to pull naive retail investors into soon to be bankrupt stocks like CFC and BSC so that Wall St could dump their stock on them, with LEH we are talking about rumours that threaten one of the Wall St institutions that the SEC looks out for (all in the spirit of the 1934 act).

Taking low probability trades rather than sitting tight for the high probability trades?, too tight stops, stopping yourself out rather than allowing the trade to breathe ie not accepting it is routine for the trade to go negative around the entry?

Not surprised if they publish research like that.

Damm, forgot about the tool analyst upgrade. Anyone got the report - want to see his detailed dissection of the balance sheet, perish the thought that he just took the earnings press release at face value coz it suited his purpose better.

Fair enough, "your business is with the tape" in other words. Perhaps I misinterpreted something.

"This process tends to start waaaay before headlines or economic data becomes wildly bullish." "..........markets can change in a heartbeat I guarantee you will likely be on the sidelines while markets see a huge multi-week rally." Perhaps I am inferring something that you have not...

Do you actually have money on the line to supprt your view. Have you increased your position lately?

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Rality does not go down well with the American public.

Does a head and shoulders/double bottom formed by two 75BP rate cuts count? I may yet be proved wrong in being short but this guy is a complete tool. I use price action as a major part of my decision making but think in the current circumstances looking at more than just price patterns may be...

Looks like I was wrong on stock for borrow availability.

Not to worry if you can't get stock, plenty will become available on the "Buffet is buying" etc type rumour + squeeze coming just as soon as selling pressure eases off.

You are just copying the retail FX model :D - except they don't give money back, but they do make things difficult if you have the temerity to win. The only thing worse than a winner is a winner who withdraws his winnings.

IB data fed through Sierra (or maybe ensign) or TS2000i with Hyperserver/Metaserver seems to be the best way to go. Alternatively Metastock Qutecenter $135/month. eSignal Asian data is/was seriously corrupt and lagged appallingly in my experience. Not much fun when the competition is...

Agree, perception is reality in markets, at least for a short while, and this is extreme with financials where it can becme a self fulfilling prophecy. Interesting there is no stock for borrow on LEH anywhere (?) - BSC was the same 2 days before it rolled over and died.

Strictly, you are right, more than 100% is possible if leverage is used which it is. In practical terms though you can make e.g. 200% on a small move in an index with index ETF options but to do that with 50% margined index ETF the index would have to go to zero.

Silence from LEH throughout has been deafening. For me the giveaway was the PR plant explaining how Fuld made a mistake last time around by being silent when the stock price was tanking but everything was OK, the insinuation, but not the SEC/GAAP conforming fact, being that everything is OK this...

"First, any company that is a commodity producer simply can't be owned, no matter what. The New Economy makes those be simply a function of low-cost producer with no ability ever to raise price."